UPDATED ON 31st AUGUST 2022
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Entries are now closed for the Alde & Ore Estuary Trust's Aldeburgh-to-Orford Flotilla on Sunday 4th September. However, you're most welcome to cheer on the participants, as it leaves Aldeburgh Yacht Club (IP15 5NA) from 9:15am, and arrives at Orford Sailing Club (IP12 2NU) at any time between 10:30am and 1:00pm.
We will have up to 150 of our supporters swimming or paddling their way to raise funds — and a very generous donor has offered to match-fund up to £20,000 raised from this event. With this in mind we are asking that if, perhaps, you had been considering making a gift to The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust, please would you donate to this year's Flotilla Fund and help us maximise this wonderful offer? We would be enormously grateful.
[22/7/24: Please note that details and the links below may no longer apply. — Webmaster]
Please visit https://www.aoetrust.org/make-a-donation today. There are a number of ways you can make your gift and, if we can claim Gift Aid on it too, please let us know. That extra 25% makes such a difference. (If you're making an immediate online donation, it seems unnecessary to supply your phone number, although it is requested.)
UPDATED ON 7th JUNE 2022
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Following cancellation of the proposed 2020 and 2021 annual events, The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust is organising a second Summer Flotilla as part of its Save Our Suffolk Estuary fundraising campaign — and is encouraging the river-loving community to get involved. On Sunday 4th September, participants are invited to swim, kayak, row, canoe, or paddleboard from Aldeburgh Yacht Club and make their way almost five miles down the estuary to Orford Sailing Club, with the ebb tide to help them.
Read more below and/or visit https://www.aoetrust.org/new-events for further details.
You can download the whole two-page press release by clicking on its first page above.
For technical reasons, the links on its second page here below won't work as expected,
but they're all repeated towards the foot of this blog in case you do require them.
Image: ©2019 Gill Moon
UPDATED ON 29th JUNE: 2021 FLOTILLA CANCELLED
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Following the recent Government announcement that the final stage of easing lockdown restrictions is to be delayed, a decision has been made to postpone the Flotilla, scheduled for 4th July, until next year.
You can read more at http://www.aldeandore.org/index.php/aldeburgh-orford-flotilla/
POSTED ON 2nd JUNE, 2021
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As part of their Save Our Suffolk Estuary fundraising campaign, the Alde & Ore Estuary Trust are organising their second Summer Flotilla on Sunday 4th July, and once again encouraging our river-loving community to get involved. You can read more here.